JUST to update you on our extensive coverage of the new Star Trek movie in last Friday’s Birmingham Mail, here’s how the film has performed at IMAX since.

In the first seven days it sold 6,600 tickets and, out of the first 29 shows booked, 13 have sold out.

Star Trek opened on 499 cinema screens nationwide.

And, compared with the UK box office average, IMAX grossed more than two-and-half times the average 35mm screen.

You’d expect that given tickets are £9, but the premium rating is worth it as the giant screen at Millennium Point completely transforms what is already a very good film.

Yet for all this success, Star Trek is proving to be no match for the might of The Dark Knight, last year’s Batman sequel for Christian Bale.

Back then, Christopher Nolan’s movie sold a massive 13,200 seats in the first week. The Dark Knight sold out 28 out of 29 shows and then went on to fill 58 in a row – a record for the cinema which will be eight years old in September. Fans came from as far away as Devon to see it blown up in Brum.

In the US, Star Trek’s opening weekend on IMAX screens set a new record high of $8.3 million from 138 screens – $2 million more than The Dark Night achieved.

The cinema industry usually concentrates on box office values in the till – Star Trek grossed £5.95 million in the UK through its opening weekend to May 13, when really the most important indicator of a film’s success is the number of bums on seats.